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I'm wondering if someone can tell me what I might have in my pond :-)
I've got a 300 gallon pond with 3 one year old shubunkin, and a handful of koi not much older than a year. I have dozens and dozens of fry in every size from an eighth of an inch to two inches. Many of them resemble the varicolored shubunkin, but some have plain and subtle marks that look much more like the koi. Is it possible for the black and white and florescent orange shubunkin to produce a fish that's solid in color? I also heard that the koi-shubunkin sterile "mules" were olive black in color. Can anyone confirm that, or is it an old wives tale? I have a fair amount of these... Thanks! Teri |
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I'm wondering if someone can tell me what I might have in my pond :-)I've got
a 300 gallon pond with 3 one year old hubunkin, and ahandful of koi not much older than a year. I have dozens and dozens offry in every size from an eighth of an inch to two inches. Many ofthem resemble the varicolored shubunkin, but some have plain andsubtle marks that look much more like the koi. Is it possible for theblack and white and florescent orange shubunkin to produce a fish that's solid in color? The fry are all shubunkins. All gold fish ( and shubunkins are goldfish) will have "throwbacks" in every spawn. Theses will stay olive color or grey. The koi are too young to spawn they need to be 2 for males and 3 for females.....That being said you have way to small a pond to have ANY koi let alone a "handful" You need a minamum of 1000 gallons for the first koi and 100 gallons for each after that....so if you have 5 koi you will need a pond 1400 gallons. Goldfish need at least 20 gallons per fish....how ever I think that is still too many and would rather see about 1/2 of that. You will need to start disposing of some of the fish soon......These figures are for a medium sized fish.......Jerri http://www.fringeweb.com/Ponds/JerrisPond |
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